Supporting Political Campaigns on Behalf of Palestinian Prisoner-Terrorists

A number of core-funded NGOs are leading international campaigns on behalf of Palestinian prisoners (including convicted murderers). The context of terrorism is completely erased from these political campaigns.

Addameer (core funding $325,000) publishes misleading statistics that greatly inflate the number of Palestinian prisoners and ignore the fact that most prisoners were convicted of multiple murders. Addameer uses this inaccurate information in its call for sanctions against Israel.

On March 3, MIFTAH (core funding $390,000) published a report referring to convicted murderers Marwan Barghouti and Ahmed Saadat as “political prisoners.” Saadat is also Secretary-General of the PFLP a terrorist organization, designated as such by the US, EU, Canada, and Israel.

In a March 22 press release BADIL (core funding $370,000) lauded the ESCWA report and “called upon the ICC Public Prosecutor to open an investigation into Israel’s commission of the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people and to bring those responsible into justice.”